Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:40:43 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Murray Taylor" <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au>, "Garrett Cooper" <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher? Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEAGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F12DF2D1@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Murray Taylor > Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:28 PM > To: Garrett Cooper; perryh@pluto.rain.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices,Will FreeBSD accept > Office 98 + Publisher? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > > Garrett Cooper > > Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2007 4:28 AM > > To: perryh@pluto.rain.com > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will > > FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher? > > > > perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > >> OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there > > >> still isn't a native (Aqua) build. > > > > > > I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :) > > > > Yes >_>.. I mean that the latest and greatest version of OOo isn't > > available for Aqua native yet. It's going to take another > > year to port, > > as someone has claimed already. > > > > There was a big leap in terms of functionality from 1.x vs > > 2.x in OOo, > > but then again considering that the OP was asking about > > running Office > > 98 (:D..), I don't think he'd mind running the 1.x version binaries. > > > > -Garrett > > > As the original poster wants to write books .... may I suggest that he > use > a text editor and then a typesetter combination rather than any form of > WYSIWYG wordprocessor. > > IE use (insert favourite text editor here) then use the LaTeX / Tetex > port > to actually properly format the material as a book. > > Yes there is a learning curve here, but the end result is all > over a wordprocessed attempt. > When I wrote my book Addison Wesley used Quark internally, but required me to submit my manuscript -on paper-. They then retyped it, sent me the proofs (which had enormous numbers of typos in them) I corrected and sent back. I asked them if I gave them the manuscript in Quark source files if they would take that, (because I had access to a pirated copy of Quark and figured I would import what I had written my book in) and they would not. They required a paper manuscript. Thus, use whatever you want to write your book - if your going to get it published most likely your publisher will not be using what your using. Ted
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